{"51501":{"#nid":"51501","#data":{"type":"news","title":"College of Computing Awards Posthumous Degree to Daniel Compton","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E(May 4, 2007)\u003C\/strong\u003E - On April 18th, the Institute Undergraduate Curriculum Committee (IUCC) approved the granting of a posthumous degree for CS undergraduate Daniel Compton. Compton died last year and would have been a senior graduating this month.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EFriends of the deceased, Victor Jaworski and James Gaines, along with Compton\u0027s father, Jim Compton, lead the effort to have Compton recognized with a posthumous degree.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ECompton was a co-op student and attended Georgia Tech in good standing from Fall 2002 to Spring 2006.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"On April 18th, the Institute Undergraduate Curriculum Committee (IUCC) approved the granting of a posthumous degree for CS undergraduate Daniel Compton. Compton died last year and would have been a senior graduating this month.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27154","created_gmt":"2010-02-09 21:44:05","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:04:56","author":"Louise Russo","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2007-05-04T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2007-05-04T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}